airplane short takeoff/landing records

[Jon]

[ranald]

Some takeoff, can't imagine the revs; and the landing: some pilot & plane. must have giant magnets to switch on & off .

[PJs]

Do you know what kind of bird that is Jon? Interesting and why what he did is possible are the leading and trailing edge Ailerons. Had to be less than 30 feet both ways! The tail wheel touches down about where the front wheels touched down...

[Jon]

Piper cub? Maybe modded a little for this kind of stuff. Also, like many aviation GIFs, probably perfect wind in this one.

[Frank S]

Piper cub? Maybe modded a little for this kind of stuff. Also, like many aviation GIFs, probably perfect wind in this one.

Jon a lot of the smaller Cessnas like the 180 and 185 are used as bush planes as well as Beech and DeHavilland
Here is a website IE rabbit hole about Alaskan bush planes
Best bush planes: Flying Cessna, Piper, Beech, DeHavilland, airplanes & aircraft

[PJs]

Piper cub? Maybe modded a little for this kind of stuff. Also, like many aviation GIFs, probably perfect wind in this one.

My hit after a bit of rabbit holing is it is a Modded Kit Fox, adding the front ailerons. The fuselage is what confused me as the Pipers and the Super Piper are more rounded. Typically there is a lot of modding done on these bush planes depending on their use and areas of service...the holy grail being the Dehavilland DHC-2 Beaver for HP, versatility and capacity.

Great thread Jon, Thank You!

[briankirk725]

My hit after a bit of rabbit holing is it is a Modded Kit Fox, adding the front ailerons. The fuselage is what confused me as the Pipers and the Super Piper are more rounded. Typically there is a lot of modding done on these bush planes depending on their use and areas of service...the holy grail being the Dehavilland DHC-2 Beaver for HP, versatility and capacity.

Great thread Jon, Thank You!

Very similar, but this is a variation on the classic Super Cub. It's called the Stolquest SQ12 (a 4 place Super-Cub with a bunch of other mods). Supercub.com is their site.

[PJs]

Very similar, but this is a variation on the classic Super Cub. It's called the Stolquest SQ12 (a 4 place Super-Cub with a bunch of other mods). Supercub.com is their site.

Thanks much for chiming in here. I'm just a novice with eyes for details and love STOL slow goers. I understand that there is a bunch of modding on these aircraft, but your links show or tell little of what SQ12 actually is in final form and I followed a bunch of other rabbit holes from them. Thanks for the links! The one in the first picture of the article under "Backcountry Super Cubs" is similar but the wing struts, elevator, gear and nose cowling seem quite different and can't see the full tail.



The Backcountry Boss has some features of the one in Jons post except a 4 seater, and has dual wing struts. Backcountry BOSS – Backcountry Super Cubs

The one in Jon's pic is definitely not a 4 seater, has a tail like a T-38 and the fuselage, wings and the engine cowling looks like the Lycoming version of the Kit Fox with the Alaskan 26-29" tire add-on. Only way to know for sure is if Jon could source the Gif/MP4 somehow and we could rabbit hole that.

I may be wrong and happy to admit it but mainly corn-fuselaged.


PJ

[Frank S]

That's a situation where you have to trust the controller and have faith in your instruments

[ranald]

Piper cub? Maybe modded a little for this kind of stuff. Also, like many aviation GIFs, probably perfect wind in this one.

Hi Jon & thanks again. I mentioned flying with magnets. Have you seen the cordless bungee jump.